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Local school staple 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine' from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide
November 01, 2024 - 12:25 PM

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story.
‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum
November 01, 2024 - 10:35 PM

MADRID (AP) — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life.
Willie Nelson on his new album, cannabis cookbook, Kris Kristofferson and what makes a good song
November 01, 2024 - 7:11 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Young musicians looking for longevity would be wise to follow the sensible word of Willie Nelson: Do what feels right, and if you're lucky enough to have a statue built in your honor in your city, remember that it is just something you've “got to go down and clean off the pigeon (expletive) every now and then."
Jodi Picoult's 'Nineteen Minutes' tops PEN America of books banned in schools
November 01, 2024 - 5:21 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools.
Miami native 'Cuban Cowboy' Orlando Mendez returns home for Country Bay Musical Festival
October 31, 2024 - 9:06 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Miami-native Orlando Mendez had been an aspiring actor when a pandemic shut down live entertainment in 2020. But the break gave Mendez a chance to embrace his love of county music and reinvent himself as the “Cuban Cowboy.”
Longtime PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel is stepping down to head Freedom House
October 31, 2024 - 1:51 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of PEN America, Suzanne Nossel, is stepping down after more than a decade marked by substantial growth and recent controversy, In January, she will be heading the pro-democracy Freedom House.
In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes
October 31, 2024 - 12:28 PM

It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, the German bombing raids on the city during World War II are never all that far from his mind. Reminders of it are everywhere.
Film academy adds handwritten ‘Pulp Fiction’ script, Miyazaki art, more to vast collection
October 31, 2024 - 9:43 AM

No one knew what Quentin Tarantino had in the duffle bag.
U.S. historian's book on North America's Indigenous history wins Cundill prize
October 30, 2024 - 8:11 PM

MONTREAL - A U.S. historian's book on North America's Indigenous history, “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” has won the Cundill History Prize.
It's spooky season. Here are some scary stories from around the world you probably haven't heard
October 30, 2024 - 8:04 PM

Some are well-worn warnings as familiar as the changing of seasons. Others are slow burns that end with a bang. Still others are just plain eerie.
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JONESIE: The lessons of free-range children long forgotten
OPINION When we were kids, we knew every inch of our neighbourhood. We ran around town till ten minutes before mom got home, which on weekends was often 2 a.m. Bad news for us when she got home early. We knew every vacant lot,

MATCHMAKING SERVICE: Young Agrarians hook up wannabe farmers with land in Okanagan
An organization that matches young, aspiring farmers to landholders has noticed fewer people are investing in orchards and vineyards in the Okanagan following the industry’s challenges this year. Young Agrarians is a national organiza

Growers and processors selected through a lottery for Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program
Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program should be positioned to ramp up quickly, but having products available for some patients at the outset will be a challenge, Gov. Andy Beshear says. Beshear's administration took a big ste

Kelowna trailer park residents face 'demoviction' from their affordable homes
Walking into Central Mobile Home Park in Kelowna you see well kept yards, towering evergreen trees, people walking their dogs and chatting with neighbours. The community of mostly seniors is slated to razed to make space for redevelopment but the

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Local school staple 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine' from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

Willie Nelson on his new album, cannabis cookbook, Kris Kristofferson and what makes a good song

Jodi Picoult's 'Nineteen Minutes' tops PEN America of books banned in schools

Miami native 'Cuban Cowboy' Orlando Mendez returns home for Country Bay Musical Festival

Longtime PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel is stepping down to head Freedom House

In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes

Film academy adds handwritten ‘Pulp Fiction’ script, Miyazaki art, more to vast collection

U.S. historian's book on North America's Indigenous history wins Cundill prize

It's spooky season. Here are some scary stories from around the world you probably haven't heard

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